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Press Clipbook
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during September 2010
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1. Metro International (New York,NY)
NEW YORK,NEW YORK (74,273)
09-30-2010
On the autumn path
2. Breitbart (Los Angeles,CA)
LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA (1,916,429)
09-29-2010
Mooo-ve Over Black and White Holsteins, Turkey Hill Contest Asks Fans to Design its Iconic Giant...
3. TravelingMom (Greenwich,CT)
GREENWICH,CONNECTICUT (240)
09-23-2010
Family Travel: Back in Time in Lancaster, PAHome
4. Ginger Lemon Girl
WEB SITE,WORLD WIDE WEB (2,678)
09-23-2010
Autumn, In the land of the Amish (pt. 1)
5. READING EAGLE
READING,PA (54,188)
09-23-2010
Stops on this tour are some of Lancaster County's best-kept secrets
6. Mennonite (The) (Scottdale,PA)
SCOTTDALE,PENNSYLVANIA (2,699)
09-22-2010
Over 2,000 visitors attend Snitz Fest
7. LEBANON DAILY NEWS
LEBANON,PA (17,591)
09-20-2010
Brewing beer a big sideshow at the Renaissance Faire
8. AP State Online Pennsylvania
NEW YORK,NEW YORK (N/A)
09-18-2010
Pa. celebrity farmer plays to changing tastes
9. REPOSITORY
CANTON,OH (61,036)
09-18-2010
DUTCH WONDERLAND
10. Examiner.com (Denver,CO)
DENVER,COLORADO (5,766,643)
09-16-2010
Pennsylvania best fall foliage road trip: Scranton, Poconos, Appalachian Trail
11. About.com - Food & Drink Blogs (NY)
NEW YORK,NEW YORK (590,250)
09-10-2010
Culinary Tours in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
12. Yahoo! Finance (Sunnyvale,CA)
SUNNYVALE,CALIFORNIA (27,925,323)
09-09-2010
Willow Valley Associates Announces Grand Opening for Its New 185-Room Doubletree Resort - Yahoo!...
13. FOX - WPMT-TV (Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York) - Fox 43 Morning News
, (N/A)
09-07-2010
Mike emanuel, fox news
14. FOX - WPMT-TV (Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York) - Fox 43 Morning News
, (N/A)
09-07-2010
Value--With musical shows, lots of places to stay
15. Travel Blog
WEB SITE,WORLD WIDE WEB (272,674)
09-07-2010
Philadelphia and Lancaster
16. FOX - WPMT-TV (Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York) - Fox 43 News At 6:30
, (N/A)
09-06-2010
Thousands of visitors from out of town flock to the long's park arts and crafts festival in...
17. SUNDAY TRIBUNE
PHILADELPHIA,PA (64,101)
09-05-2010
Lancaster Market House still has its colonial charm
18. ANTIQUES & AUCTION NEWS
MOUNT JOY,PA (39,000)
09-03-2010
Cackleberry Farm Antique Mall Celebrating 14th Annual Labor Day Sale
19. Raleigh (NC) News & Observer
RALEIGH,NORTH CAROLINA (504,441)
09-01-2010
Visitors Will Have a Ball at Kitchen Kettle Village's 36th Annual Seven Sweets & Sours Tailgate...
20. MOTORHOME
VENTURA,CA (144,063)
09-01-2010
DUTCH TREATS
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For a festive drive, get yourself to Amish country on PA Route 772 as nearest mountainous region for
family fun at the Autumn
it traverses the area from Gap to Manheim. Then, hop on PA Route
Timber
Festival (Oct. 9-10) in
324 to travel 15 miles through Pequea on the banks of the
Delaware,
Pa. Located in the
Susquehanna River. There are lots of side roads dotted with gorgeous
heart of the Shawnee Mountain
autumnal colors and seasonal smells.
region, this part of the state is
Bucks County
picturesque this time of year.
Take PA Route 532 to PA Route 32 and head north. Your trip will
Enjoy lumberjack
follow the Delaware River though Washington Crossing, New Hope
demonstrations
and chain saw
and other small, quaint towns in the area. There are tons of cute
sculptures while taking in the
bed-and-breakfasts in New Hope to spend the night or a relaxing
sights and sounds of the
weekend getaway. The next morning, ride in a vintage railroad car
Poconos. courtesy of the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad to take in even more
local scenery.
Montgomery County
Pack a picnic and take the Turnpike to Valley Forge National Historic Park. After your scenic drive
through the area, enjoy hiking and bird-watching or sign up for a 90-minute guided tour, which will
give you the full story of the Valley Forge Encampment while you cruise through the trails on an openair trolley.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharpen your pencils and dust off your coloring set,
Turkey Hill Dairy is giving fans a chance to create a design that will be brought to life on one of the company's
most iconic symbols – its 13-foot-tall traveling Giant Cow.
Turkey Hill's fleet of Giant Cows is known to folks all over the United States. Based at the Dairy in Lancaster
County, Pa., the black and white Holsteins have been spotted roaming highways far and wide, stopping at state
fairs, grand opening events and parties giving away free ice cream and iced tea to everyone in their path since
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The Giant Cow Makeover Contest was created to bring new life to the company's Giant Cows, which have
traveled as far as Puerto Rico during their tenure as wheeled mascots.
"For a lot of folks, our Giant Cows are the first face of Turkey Hill Dairy they see, so they have to look their best,"
said Quintin Frey, president of Turkey Hill Dairy. "What better way to select a design that best represents the
Dairy than by asking our loyal fans."
A blank cow coloring page will be posted at turkeyhill.com to help guide the design process. Fifty entrants will be
chosen at random to receive a free container of Turkey Hill Ice Cream. After the January 31, 2011 deadline, the
Dairy will select five of the best submissions and post them on turkeyhill.com where a public vote will determine
the winner. Each of the five finalists will receive a one-month supply of Turkey Hill Ice Cream, an assortment of
items from the Turkey Hill online store, and free admission for themselves and three guests to the new Turkey Hill
Experience visitors attraction opening this spring in Lancaster County.
The winner of the Giant Cow Makeover Contest will not only have their design painted on a Giant Cow, they'll also
receive a one-year supply of Turkey Hill Ice Cream, an ice cream party, a visit from the redesigned Giant Cow and
a two-night stay in Lancaster County and visit to the spring 2011 grand opening of Turkey Hill's new interactive
exhibit, the Turkey Hill Experience.
The contest will begin October 1, and a winner will be selected in February 2011. Entries can be submitted
through the Turkey Hill website or mail. For more information, visit turkeyhill.com.
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Located in the rich farming country of Lancaster County, Pa., Turkey Hill Dairy produces the fourth largest-selling
premium ice cream brand and the top-selling refrigerated iced tea brand in the nation. The third-generation,
family-run dairy sells its products in a market that extends along the East Coast from Maine to Florida – and as far
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One of the reasons families travel is exposure to different cultures, and
nowhere is the divide more apparent between what we are used to and what
we will experience than in two roads through Lancaster, PA. Route 30, the
usual road through the area, is crammed with chain stores and strip malls.
The bucolic Old Philadelphia Pike, which more or less parallels Route 30, has
traffic slowdowns when a horse and buggy pulls onto the road, or a cow
wanders over from a nearby farm.
The escapee cow actually happened when I took my daughters, Sela, 17, and
Nora, 12, and their cousin, Zoe, 10, on Aaron & Jessica's Buggy Ride. They
were already having trouble digesting that the Amish not only don’t go in cars, they don’t have – gasp – Internet
access. No cell phones, no Netflix, no iPods.
They do have semmingly incongruous websites, but the girls didn’t pick up on that.
Our buggy ride included a farm tour, where we watched the cows getting milked and Nora got sprayed with cow poop.
The girls were already squeamish about the horse poop that emanated continuously from ‘our’ horse, so the cow was
just one more reminder that we were not in New York any more.
Of course, you can take a horse and carriage ride through Central Park, but your tour guide will be wearing a top hat
and tails, not the traditional modest clothes favored by the Amish. And you won’t follow this up with a meal at Plain &
Fancy Farm Restaurant.
Plain & Fancy features an Amish Farm Feast with unlimited platters of meat, not the most obvious choice for a family of
vegetarians. But the appetizers of potato salad, Chow Chow, (pickled vegetables) tomato salad, and rolls, almost filled
us up; sides of mashed potatoes, dried sweet corn, green beans and noodles gave us more than enough to eat, even if
heavy on the carbs. And then there was dessert: vanilla ice cream with apple or shoo-fly (molasses) pie.
Zoe, a carnivore, was in pig – and beef and chicken- heaven. She was served a
platter of chicken, a chicken potpie, sausage and roast beef. Lest we feel guilty
that we couldn’t finish this cornucopia, our server told us that leftovers are fed to
the animals.
By the way, the feast was $9.95 for kids ages 4-12. $18.95 for adults. Iced tea,
lemonade, coffee and tea are included; an excellent local micro-brewed beer,
from Lancaster Brewing Company, was only $3.
We stayed in the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, which has modern amenities
– Wi-Fi in rooms, a beautiful heated indoor pool, valet parking, (for cars, not horses) all right across the street from
Central Market, where you can pick up an excellent breakfast or the fixings for a picnic lunch. The indoor market, the
country's oldest farmers' market, is open Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
The hotel’s luxurious bedding – pillow top mattresses, high thread count linens and down comforters, practically
guarantees a good night’s sleep. The Marriott is part of the ‘Nickelodeon Your Stay’ promotion, where kids get a free
activity pack with SpongeBob SquarePants goodies and a special turndown service (through December 26, 2010).
You could check it all out on your smartphone – as long as you are not Amish.
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Autumn, In the land of the Amish (pt. 1)
A granny square quilt hanging made by a local Mennonite woman.
We bought this at a quilt shop in Bird-In-Hand, PA.
I'm embarrassed to admit that my only familiarity with the Amish before last weekend was from
watching the movie “Witness” with Harrison Ford. I remember watching the movie as a child and
being in awe of the Amish people and the way they lived.
I have always loved reading historical fiction and non-fiction books about living in the early 18th
century. I’ve always loved museums, living-history villages, and old houses. If it weren’t for modern
bathrooms, medicine, and the internet, sometimes I’ve wondered if living as the Amish do, would be a
lifestyle that I would enjoy. I truly respect and honor the way the Amish and Mennonite people live,
raise their children, and contribute to their community.
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beautiful children. The Stoltzfus’ own 9 aces of land in Lancaster Co, in a rural area, surrounded by
Amish farms and rolling hills.
The Stoltzfus’ invited us to attend their church service on Sunday morning. We gladly accepted their
invitation and experienced a worship service at Life Fellowship Church. It was a joy to spend time
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An old barn on the back roads of Lancaster County
This welcoming congregation could also sing. Not just sing… but beautifully worship God with their
voices. It was incredible. While I knew the words to many of the songs, I just wanted to close my eyes
and listen to the astonishing harmonies in the center of that room. Many of these men and women grew
up singing and learning harmonies, so that when they sang on that Sunday morning it was completely
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natural, humble, and beautiful. They were unpretentious and sang straight from their hearts. It was
some of the most beautiful singing I have ever heard.
After the worship service on most Sundays, the congregation shares a meal with one another. Dan and
Sara invited us to join them for lunch. I was slightly hesitant since I wasn’t sure what offerings might
be gluten-free, but I wanted to experience real, local, Mennonite cooking! I’m so glad we accepted
their invitation! It was a treat to eat with them! Simple, but incredibly delicious foods were offered. We
ate baked potatoes with homemade chili and cheese. Fresh salad. Locally grown tomatoes. Blocks of
cheese. Freshly julienned carrots with homemade dip. Deviled eggs. A homemade beet salad... just to
name a few. It was an amazing meal! I could eat everything (accept for some of the yummy looking
desserts…but Michael could tell you all about them! He had several brownies, which he enjoyed
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While we were eating we met and talked with many members of the congregation. The women
were friendly and beautiful (without makeup – I felt so at home!), wearing simple, lovely
skirts, and a head-covering or prayer veiling. I was honored to meet these women and learn
more about them. The men were jovial, smiling, and obviously happy to be sharing in this
meal with their friends!
In respect of Amish and Old Order Mennonite beliefs, I restrained from taking pictures of the people
we met, or the food they made for us. This was hard for me because they were such lovely people and
they prepared beautiful foods! As I age, I can only hope to look as young and vibrant as these women
(of all ages) did!
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In the upcoming week, I will make several of the dishes we enjoyed while visiting Lancaster, so you
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2010-09-01 issue:
Over 2,000 visitors attend Snitz Fest
by Lowell Brown of Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Making apple cider was one of more than a dozen traditional Pennsylvania German skills demonstrated at the annual Snitz Fest at the 1719
Hans Herr House & Museum near the town of Willow Street, Pa., on Sept. 18.
Over 2,000 people attended this year's event, celebrating 300 years of European settlement in Lancaster County. The 1719 Herr House is the
oldest Mennonite meetinghouse in the Americas.
Willow Street Mennonite Church, the congregation that met there nearly 300 years ago, sponsored this year's free festival in conjunction with
their own tricentennial celebration, a short wagon-ride away.
Paul Hess, Willow Street, Pa., makes apple cider. Photo by Lowell Brown.
Glenn Shenk, Holtwood, Pa., in background, demonstrates wood-working. Marshall Rumbaugh, Dallas, Pa., in foreground, makes butter
molds. Photo by Lowell Brown.
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PHILADELPHIA
If he's not skateboarding, playing soccer in a local league, or hobnobbing with top chefs in his Armani jacket,
you may have seen Tom Culton at the Headhouse Square farmers' market in his variation on the Huck Finn
look _ straw hat, silk scarf, and maybe his grandfather's lederhosen.
But don't be fooled by the 19th−century garb. Culton is not your grandfather's Pennsylvania farmer.
Just 30 years old, Culton is rocking the Food Channel−flavored world of American pop culture, a rising star
of a new breed that would have seemed unfathomable a decade ago:
Celebrity farmer.
Culton glides between two worlds. One is the Lancaster County patch of soil that's been in his family for
three generations, where he labors to grow purple Brussels sprouts and other high−end produce for about 20
restaurants in Philadelphia, including Vetri, Osteria, and Zahav, and 50 more in New York such as Thomas
Keller's renowned Per Se and Daniel Boulud's trendy eateries.
Then there's his fast−growing circle of celebrity chefs, the glossy spread in a national food magazine, and a
push to host his own cable−TV series showing how food gets from farm to table.
And on Sept. 23, Culton's more elaborate produce will go on the block at Sotheby's "The Art of Farming"
auction, featuring 23 organic growers and sustainable−food proponents Martha Stewart and Bette Midler,
among others.
In some ways, the glitzy side of Culton's widening world _ his trademark offbeat wardrobe now includes that
$2,000 Armani jacket, on loan from an upscale restaurant _ is a commentary on America's unending mania for
all things lavishly food−related.
Attention is now heaped not just on the superstar chefs who run gourmet restaurants but also on the farmers
who supply them, especially with the growing popularity of the "eat local" movement.
But friends say Culton's key to success is not the colorful hats or the skateboard, but his authenticity and his
devotion to his Lancaster County soil.
"He's very charismatic, very articulate, very passionate _ I think it's a bit of a surprise to people," said Aaron
Matzkin, a photographer and partner in the TV project, who met him at the Headhouse a few years ago.
"He has this great happy−go−lucky childlike attitude toward life, but once you start talking to him about what
he does, he certainly knows what he's talking about. He's passionate and articulate. He's not blowing smoke."
After all, even a farmer whose produce is featured in Bon Appetit magazine, as Culton's crops were recently,
still has to deal with the humbling hard work and unpredictable weather that go into urging tiny seeds to
sprout into a bounty of fruits and vegetables.
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"I do hustle from the time I wake up in the morning," said Culton, standing amid rows of potatoes on his lush
53−acre tract in Silver Spring, outside Lancaster, in his usual work getup of straw boater, ascot, and bare feet.
"It's the nature of the business. You can't sit back and wait for the world to come to you."
Hard work is in Culton's bloodlines. His family has been in the Lancaster County area since 1740. But Culton
Organics has replaced the barely−scraping−by staples that his mother and grandfather grew there _ such as
tobacco and carrots _ with Flageolet beans, Rouge vif d'Etampes pumpkins, and those purple Brussels sprouts.
Not your typical Amish market fare.
Reinventing the family farm was not something he had planned to tackle at such a young age. Culton, a
Hempfield High School graduate who did not attend college, was only 20 when his mother died in 2001 and
he took over the family business.
Almost from the beginning, he knew he would have to become what he called "the ultimate hustler." He said:
"As a businessman you got to have that mentality, unless you have a trust fund. You're either in debt to the
bank or working your butt off. I was raised that you don't want to be in debt to the bank."
It helps enormously that Culton is a bundle of perpetual energy _ his joints jangle as he talks enthusiastically
about his passions, whether it's working the land or his Sunday−night soccer matches.
Friends say his high−energy, attention−grabbing persona is simply who Tom Culton is, and not a tad
contrived _ not that the sideshow isn't great for business.
"Tom is a fun guy; he entertains the customers," Katy Wich, Headhouse manager, said with a laugh. "He's
goofy, but very serious about farming and the products he brings to the market. He loves to talk about the
varieties and their place in different cuisines."
So much so that Culton often has the longest line at the market.
"He is a good salesman. He won't let you go until he gets his point across about what he has to offer," she
said.
Culton's coming of age coincided with a decade of rapid change in the restaurant business, and he was quick
to pick up on the trends.
From local chefs, he learned that restaurants were looking for higher−quality produce and more variety than
they were getting from large distributors.
After a few trips to France, he began growing heirloom crops. Then he cold−called restaurants. His first major
"get" was the venerable Le Bec−Fin, which bought small table grapes from 75−year−old vines that Culton
says a French policeman gave to his grandfather.
In the meantime, the unusually attired young farmer became a Sunday fixture in the crowded Headhouse,
where he learned by asking customers that Vetri was the hottest restaurant in the city.
A 2007 phone call led chef−owner Marc Vetri to send his chefs to the Culton spread, where they started
purchasing Italian artichokes and other hard−to−find delicacies.
"It's things they can't get from anyone else than me," Culton said.
Three years later, Culton now sends a refrigerator truck once a week to New York with produce. A new
visitor to his farm last October _ TV's Top Chef head judge and Craft restaurants impresario Tom Colicchio _
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is a customer.
"It was cool," Culton said of the visit, even as he acknowledged he didn't know a lot about Top Chef.
Chef−owner Sean Cavanaugh of Lancaster's John J. Jeffries called Culton "the new standard" for organic
farming. As the restaurant's main supplier, Culton offers dozens of unusual varieties, Cavanaugh said.
"He doesn't just grow tomatoes or squash or onions. He grows 15 different kinds with different characteristics
to them," said Cavanaugh, who was tickled with the French pumpkins that Culton dropped off recently.
Culton's farm is one of 5,400 remaining in Lancaster County. Most don't have the cachet or high profile of
Culton Organics, and many are struggling.
Some have mixed feelings about the notion of the farmer−as−rock−star.
"We have two different kinds of farmer, those that are celebrities and the poor schlubs out there without the
heirloom tomatoes," said Ann Karlen, director of Fair Food, which connects Philadelphia chefs with farmers
in Southeastern Pennsylvania and runs a stand at the Reading Terminal. "I believe all are vital to our region.
But do farmers have to be celebrities? Could we instead have deep respect for the work they do and pay them
a fair wage?"
Currently, Culton works 20 of his acres with only his 78−year−old grandfather and one hired hand. For the
first time he was able to put some money away last year.
"I don't want it to compromise my relation to the land," he said of the relentless pitching. "When I go to the
beach for two days, my heart is here. You love your land so much you want to be here."
That said, Culton goes back to digging up potatoes _ his grandfather driving the tractor while he steers the
plow. There are some monster tubers that he picks up to show visitors.
Suddenly he shouts to his grandfather to stop, and he pulls a cell phone out of his pocket. It is a call from
Culton's alternate universe _ a restaurant that loved the French carrots that he recently delivered.
"It's nice to hear," Culton says, then goes back to doing what he does best.
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Autumn travelers to Eastern Pennsylvania will find three of
the nation’s BEST areas for fall foliage viewing where even
Rainy day shows off the bright colors
along the Interstates the leaves are spectacular. For an
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immersion into fall foliage cruise along State Road 191
between I-80 and I-84, east of Scranton and State Road 309 between I-80 and I-81, southwest
of Scranton.
Pocono Mountains
The Pocono Mountains are the most popular resort destination in the state year round, with a
wide range of activities and quaint towns, and the fall colors attract many weekend visitors.
There are over 20 festivals celebrating culture, heritage, music and food. Consider an oldfashioned train ride on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway to view the colors. Here is a website
reference for what is happening this week in the Poconos.
Amish Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Further south, a unique fall destination is the Amish country. Here, in addition to the autumn colors, you are also able to observe the Amish's fall
harvest activities in Pennsylvania Dutch Country's rolling countryside. Pennsylvania has the largest number of covered bridges in the nation.
Lancaster County has the most with 219 remaining bridges.
Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail through Pennsylvania has many sections that are gentle and grades are easy, making it one of the easiest sections of the
nation's longest marked footpath, of approximately 2,179 miles. Hikers will find the nearly 200 miles of that Appalachian Trail cutting through the
region an active and rewarding way to enjoy nature during its most colorful season.
Timing for Peak Colors:
In the northern areas of the Poconos in early to mid-October, reaching the southern part of the state around the last week in October
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HEADLINE: Mike emanuel, fox news
00:07:02 Mike emanuel, fox news." some encouraging news out of ( lancaster county )as the summer winds
down −− (Tourism )is on the rebound. September and October are two of the biggest months for ( tourism )in
(lancaster county )−−Hotel occupancy rates are up more than 10 percent in August. And (tourism )industry
revenue is soaring up 9 percent over last year. Experts say pent−up demand is responsible for the positive
numbers −−Plus, the tough economy is forcing many people to (vacation )closer to home, chris barrett/pa.
Dutch (visitors )center: "i think we're seeing people who are staying closer to home, but want the value and
this area fits the bill nicely. " the (Pennsylvania dutch ) (visitors )bureau says (lancaster ) provides a lot of
"valu for (tourists )−−The draw of the (amish ), plus musical shows and shopping make it an ideal destination
for people from philly, D−C And Baltimore. Another bonus, the (visitors ) bureau says (lancaster )'s (tourism
)industry creates 40−Thousand jobs and pumps millions of tax llars into the community. An adams county
farm looks to boost revenue by taking on a twisted new look, smithfield farms has transformed itself into a
corn maize! Fields of adventure is 7 and a half acres. The stalks have been cuinto pathways that form a
dinosaur. The farm owner says its one way to help educate (visitors ). "It's like everyone, so why not show it."
smithfield farms also offers a corn box for kids to play in 00:08:31
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DATE: 09−07−2010
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HEADLINE: Value−−With musical shows, lots of places to stay
00:35:13 Value −−With musical shows, lots of places to stay. And, of course, the intrigue of the (amish ).
Why have things turned around? Pent−up demand, in the face of 9−point−6 percent unemployment and other
grim news experts think people just need a break: chris barrett/ pa. Dutch (visitors )bureau: "so the signs that
we' seeing are much, much stronger than what we anticipated earlier this year." the " ( Pennsylvania dutch )
(visitors )bureau" estimas the (tourism ) industry in (lancaster county )creates 40−thousand jobs and pumps
millions of tax dollars into the community. There was no raining on this parade −−People spend their last
unofficial day of summer enjoying the beautiful weather at the annual york labor day parade. Bands,
cheerleaders, and local union members −−−All in the line up. Children and adults lin the streets −−waiting to
see the parade pass by. The york labor day parade ended its route at kiwanis lake where people found even
more activities −−The fun started at 6 thirty A−M With a fishing derby −−Followed by a flea rket, an indian
pow−wow and more, but the little ones seemed the most excited about their catches of the day −−One of the
little kids came up and they had a little three inch fish and they are so proud of it. It's just a fun day to see the
look on the face of a child with a 24 inch fish and he's ecstatic. 00:36:34
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Gosh the past few days have gone quick! I can’t believe we’re about to
leave Philadelphia already.
It’s been a lovely few days. On Thursday we went for a day trip to
Lancaster, the heart of Amish country. In the district around Lancaster
there are approximately 23,000 Amish people, which is America’s
largest number of Amish people in the one place. We hadn’t made any
definite plans so we just caught a train into Lancaster, and were going
to work out what to do from there. We thought it was a possibility that
we’d have a look around and be on the next train back to Philadelphia.
We really weren’t expecting to enjoy ourselves so much that we stayed
there until 10pm that night!
Plain and Fancy farm
Once we arrived we started walking into the city centre. On the way we
passed a big baseball stadium, so of course Craig had to go in and check it out. It was the home of the Lancaster
Barnstormers, a team in an independent league. The man in the team shop was more than happy to tell us about the team
and the stadium, and he even took us inside the stadium for a bit of a look around. It was only built a few years ago and so
was really nice and new, and seated about 8000 people. Luckily they
had a game on that night, so we decided to come back for that. (It was
an awesome little stadium & we saw a pretty good game, which was of
a high standard as it is still a professional league - Craig)
An Amish home
Once we got into the city centre we went to the visitor’s centre and
found out we needed to catch a bus for a further half an hour to get out
to see the Amish. The buses only left every couple of hours and so we
had a little while to wait, so we went into a restaurant for lunch. The staff
inside the restaurant were so lovely! It was such a welcome change
from the people of New York. The waiter wanted to hear all about our
travels and gave us a few tips for Lancaster. When he found out that we
were from Melbourne he called over the manager of the restaurant, who
we found out lived in Northcote about 40 years ago! So she was really
happy to talk about her memories of Melbourne.
We then jumped on the bus to a place called Plain & Fancy Farm, which
had an Amish visitor’s centre. From there we got taken on a tour around
the Amish houses and farms. It was so cool seeing the way that the
Amish people lived and learning all about them. Craig and I got a kick
every time we saw a buggy go past our tour bus. And the Amish people
were so lovely too, they were always waving and smiling at us.
A buggy going past
Apparently they’re quite happy with the tours as they like people to learn more about their religion and way of life. Although
unfortunately we don’t have a lot of photos as the Amish don’t like photos taken of their face, and we were respectful of that.
The Amish people were all wearing their traditional clothes. The reason is partly traditional, and also because they don’t want
anyone to appear better than anyone else, they believe that everyone is the same. The women wore dresses made in a very
particular pattern but which could be different colours (as long as it was just the single colour). They were mostly in shades of
blue. The also had aprons which were pinned on, not sewed on, purely for traditional
reasons. And of course they had their white heart shaped caps on. The boys wore shirts of a single colour, black or brown
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pants and suspenders. They wore the traditional straw hats on their heads, and of
course they sported the recognizable Amish beards!
The Amish houses are huge. They need lots of rooms as they usually have quite a
few children, and they also look after their elders (no nursing homes). They also
need to have a large room in the basement for when they host the bimonthly Sunday
church service. The families take it in turns to host these services. The houses don’t
have an electricity, and small buildings could be seen outside the houses which had
a phone in them. Phones are not allowed in the house so as not to disrupt family life,
but they are still allowed access to phones for business and emergency purposes.
And it was really cool to see buggies inside their garages instead of cars!
We also got taken around a typical Amish dairy farm. The Amish men get up early
for the first milking of the cows
at 4.30am, and they milk them
a second time at 4.30pm. It
was really interesting to see
The winery in the town of
how they manage to run a
Intercourse
dairy farm without electricity. In
the background we could see an Amish man ploughing the fields not
with a machine but with horses.
We went to a few Amish shops, too. We went to a bakery and bought
some delicious baked goods. We also went to some shops selling hand
made crafts and quilts.
A typical Amish home
On the tour we drove through a town called Intercourse, which made
Craig very happy. (What an awesome name for a town! We also stopped for some wine tasting of Pennsylvanian wines,
which you can only buy in the state of Pennsylvania (a weird state law). - Craig)
After the tour we were taken through a typical Amish house. No-one lived in the house, it was built purely for educational
purposes. It was very large, but very basic.
Then we saw a movie which educated us about rumsprina, which is the period of adolescence in the Amish beginning around
age sixteen and lasting a couple of years where Amish teens “run around“ and experience the outside world. They are
allowed to do things like drive cars and wear western clothes. At the
end of runspringa, the Amish teens decide whether to be baptised as
Amish or leave Amish society. Apparently the Amish have a 90% rate of
rumpringa teens returning to the church to be baptised.
Craig and I both felt that the way that the Amish lived was really
admirable, and had lots of positive points. We liked the simplicity, and
the emphasis on family life. Of course we’d be lost without technology
though!
We then hopped back onto a bus to Lancaster and went to the baseball.
It was really cool to see a game on a smaller scale, as we were able to
get really close to everything. There were probably only about 1000
Lancaster baseball stadium
people there. They had all little competitions for kids between innings,
which was really cool. Craig was determined to catch a foul ball, but unfortunately the only foul ball that came near us was
when he went off for a beer! He was angry at me for not catching it, but it had happened when I’d taken my eye off the ball for
a second (I was watching the ball very carefully as I knew we were in a
place where we could get hit and I’d imagine those balls really hurt!),
and the ball almost hit me. After that I didn’t want him to leave to go for
another beer or to the toilet or anything, for fear that the ball would
come my way again and hit me! (There was no way I was leaving after
missing out on that foul ball. Stupid woman, why didn’t you catch the
thing? - Craig)
So we had a fantastic day in Lancaster, and the best thing about it was
that it was really unexpected!
The next day we went to Atlantic City. It was cool walking along the
boardwalk, which I’ve seen in lots of photos and movies. It even
The Barnstormers mascot Cylo
featured in an episode of Sex and the City. They had lots of outlet
stores which we hadn’t expected, and so we did a bit of shopping. The casinos were pretty cool, though of course not as
good as those in Vegas. Unfortunately we didn’t win a million dollars, that would have been really nice!
We were lucky enough to be in town for the Red Bull Flugtag in Philadelphia. The Red Bull Flugtag is a manmade aircraft
flying competition that goes all around the world. Unfortunately it was packed so we
didn’t go across to the pier where they were doing it, but they’d set up a TV screen on the opposite side of the river so we sat
there and watched it. We were lucky that it went ahead, it was really windy due to Hurricane Earl in North Carolina and they
kept waiting for the wind to die down a bit. Thankfully it eventually did. The Flugtag was so funny! The teams put a lot of effort
into their contraptions, although we didn’t see anything fly more than 40 feet (the record is 207 feet).
Craig went to the baseball after the Flugtag, I’ll let him tell you a bit more about that.
I headed along to see the Philadelphia Phillies vs. Milwaukee Brewers. When walking into the ground, I got a little worried
that I might not make it in, as instead of scalpers outside the ground like all the other games, there were mainly just people
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asking for spare tickets to get in. Turned out it was a sell-out (I‘ve since found out
they have sold-out 110+ games in a row),
however there was still standing room
available which was perfect. It was a pretty
good game, with the Phillies coming from
behind & winning 5-4, with 6 homeruns in
total for the game. I wandered around from
spot to spot throughout the game, before
staying at the one area above home plate
in the 5th inning. While here a policeman
came up & said hello, wondering if I was
from Chicago seeing as I was wearing a
White Sox hat. When I told him I was from
Australia, he was really intrigued & wanted
to know all about our holiday. I ended up
chatting to him for over 3 innings (45 mins
or more) which was pretty cool, he was a
really good bloke & we had a great chat all
Atlantic City
about sports & our holiday! I very much
enjoyed the chat & the game!
Yesterday we went for a walk around some of the historical buildings around Philadelphia. Philadelphia is where the
Declaration of Independence was written and read, where Betsy Ross (the maker of the American flag) lived and where
Benjamin Franklin lived among many other things, so it’s a very
historical city. It was cool looking at all the old buildings, although Craig
and I weren’t terribly interested in all the history. We saw the Liberty Bell
which was kind of cool.
I dragged Craig along to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
better known as the steps where Sylvester Stallone ran up in the first
Rocky movie! I made Craig run up them while I videotaped it, much to
his disgust, he had a bit of a sook about that. I’m going to put the Rocky
music to the video when we’re back at home hahaha.
I also went along to the Eastern State Penitentiary (Craig wasn’t
interested). It was a prison initially built to isolate prisoners, so prisoners
Lancaster Barnstormers
would be in their cell for 23 hours a day and out in their own solitary
exercise yard for an hour a day and never see another soul. The jail was silent - the guards even wore socks over their boots
to not make any noise - and noise was punished. Enough to drive you crazy, hey? They eventually became like every other
prison when the number of prisoners increased and they just didn’t have the room for isolation. They had a free audio tour
which was voiced by actor Steve Buscemi, which I very much enjoyed.
The prison housed Al Capone for a while, and it was the site of the 1945
escape where the prisoners built a tunnel (it took them a year!) from a
cell to the outside world. The tunnel even had wood reinforcing it and
lights and everything! Pretty incredible. All of the prisoners who escaped
were captured except for one, who was never heard of again. The
prison has featured in a few movies too, apparently 12 Monkeys
(starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt) was filmed there.
Yesterday evening we hired a car (we got upgraded from a compact to
an SUV Jeep Grand Jerokee - Craig) and drove to Lancaster. We had
initially planned to go from Philadelphia to Baltimore, but we hadn’t
been too keen to get down there after hearing from a few people that it
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wasn’t a very nice place. While we were in Lancaster, we heard about a
Renaissance Fair that was happening on the Labour Day weekend (the 4th-6th September), and we thought it would be a bit
of fun to go along to. So now I’m just waiting for Craig to wake up so we
can get to the fair!
Last night when driving into Lancaster we noticed a mini golf place, so
after we’d checked into our hotel we went and had a game. It was a
really cool course, one of the holes was on a pirate ship and we went
through a cave as well. Craig was thrilled to beat me, as the last few
times we’ve played mini golf I’ve kicked his arse. They also had a maze
there which was a lot of fun. They had four different hole punchers
around the maze, and you had to mark your start time, then get all four
hole punches and make your way out of the maze. I took about 12
minutes, but Craig did it in 7! He was so quick that he got a free game
of mini golf! So we’ll go back again tonight to play that. Maybe we’ll
Atlantic City
even do the maze again, and I can try to beat him again! Although with
his memory and sense of direction being better than mine, I don’t think I have a chance. (No chance at all missy, in either the
maze or mini golf. With last night’s game, I deliberately four-putted the
last hole from only a foot away, just to annoy Stef as I was ahead by 5 shots! She didn’t like this very much haha - Craig)
Addit:
Today we went to the Renaissance Fair. From Lancaster, we had a 30 minute drive ahead of us to get to the Fair. Once we
arrived, we lined up to buy tickets. It was good that we lined up when we did, as the people in front of us had these extra
passes, which allowed 2 for 1 entry that was very handy in saving us some cash. When we headed inside, it was pretty cool
as they had basically built this entire little medieval town! They had staff everywhere simply walking around in costume and
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talking in a medieval tone. We saw some jousting, some sword
swallowing and fire swallowing. We even saw a few court trials where
the people were pronounced guilty and dunked in a tank of water for
punishment. They also had some medieval carnival games, and Craig
got to throw axes,
knives and ninja
stars and shoot a
bow and arrow. It
was such a fun
day.
We just went to
play mini golf
The winds of Hurricane Earl made the sea
again. I beat Craig
choppy and it took this beach box away!
by 4 hahaha! He
was so unhappy, he’s such a sore loser. Then we did the maze again. I
thought I was doing so well, I was racing around and when I exited the
Atlantic City
maze I was the first one out! Unfortunately I’d forgotten that Craig had
actually gone in after me, and he did it in 5 minutes while I did it in 6. D’oh! (Stef cheated in mini golf again, she kept making
my ball bounce out of the hole, which happened on numerous occasions! - Craig)
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Atlantic City
Citizens Bank Ballpark - Philadelphia
Watching the Red Bull Flugtag
Philadelphia
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SOURCE: WPMT−TV (FOX) CH 43 (Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York) − Fox 43 News At 6:30
DATE: 09−06−2010
TIME: 18:30−19:00
HEADLINE: Thousands of visitors from out of town flock to the long's park arts and crafts festival in
lancast ...
00:00:02 Thousands of (visitors )from out of town flock to the long's park arts and crafts festival in (lancaster
), stephen kostyshyn/ artist from cedar, Michigan: "I've had customers from New York, philly, all over the
place. It's actually amazing how far they come to see this show." stephen kostyshyn comes to the show from
Michigan to sell his clay, fiber and wood mixed−Media baskets. Stephen kostyshyn/artist from cedar,
Michigan: "the people here are great. E sales are great. It's a wonderful place to be. It's a well− Established sh.
It's one of the top 10 in the country, and it's just great to do. The public responds well to the artwork here."
chelsea obeidy/west chester: "well, my mom's loving it, and she likes all the artists, and the ceramics here are
really cool." chelsea obeidy and her family made the drive from west chester one of many families making the
(trip )to (lancaster county )this summer as hotel occupancy rates soar up 10 percent in August, chelsea
obeidy/west chester: "sometimes we come for the shopping, cause there are some good sales outlets are just
one reason (lancaster )'s (tourism ) industry revenue is up more than 9 percent this year, chris barrett/ pa.
Dutch (visitors )bureau: "i think we're seeing people who are staying closer to home, but want the value and
this area fits the bill nicely." value −−With musical shows, lots of places to stay. And,
of course, the intrigue of the (amish ). 00:01:01
Highlights: amish, lancaster, lancaster county, tourism, trip, visitors
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SOURCE: Raleigh (NC) News & Observer
AUDIENCE: 504,441 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings]
DATE: 09−01−2010
HEADLINE: Visitors Will Have a Ball at Kitchen Kettle Village's 36th Annual Seven Sweets & Sours
Tailgate Festival on September 17th/18th
Source Website
Visitors Will Have a Ball at Kitchen Kettle Village's 36th Annual Seven Sweets & Sours Tailgate Festival on
September 17th/18th
Wednesday September 01, 2010 − 06:13 AM EDT
PRWeb
PRWeb
Kitchen Kettle Village announces the line−up for this year's 36th Annual Seven Sweets and Sours Tailgate
Festival on September 17th and 18th. The Festival, which represents the traditional preservation of this year's
harvest and officially kick's off the Fall tailgating season, is a celebration of eating, cooking, music and sports
fun. Events include Pumpkin Bowling, a Whoopie Pie Filling Contest, sports−themed Scarecrow
Competition, quilting demonstrations, food sampling, Bluegrass and '50's bebopping, plus a special visit from
"Swoop" the mascot for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Additionally, this year's festival, sponsored by WAWA, will include samplings of tailgate and other harvest
products, a pumpkin carving demonstration in which pumpkins are transformed into works of art, an Old
Fashioned Cider Press Display, balloon twisting from "The Balunguy" and KKV's own, Banjo Jimmy & his
Sidemen.
The two day long Festival will start at 9:00am and end at 6:00pm. As always, parking and admission is free.
For more information, please visit www.kitchenkettle.com or call (800) 732−3538 or (717) 768−8261.
Located in the beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch countryside, Kitchen Kettle Village has been entertaining
visitors from all over the world for more than 50 years. With 32 unique specialty shops, nine delicious
restaurants and eateries, charming lodging and, of course, the famous Jam & Relish Kitchen, guests can watch
local farm women putting up more than 80 original recipes of jams, jellies and relishes in large open kettles,
take a carriage ride or enjoy the free seasonal festivals and year round family events. Conveniently located on
Route 340 in the Village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania (10 miles east of Lancaster and less than two hours
from Philadelphia and Baltimore), Kitchen Kettle Village is the ideal destination for the guest who wants a
tasty Village experience. For more information, please visit www.kitchenkettle.com or call (800) 732−3538 or
(717) 768−8261.
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Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4439254.htm.
PRWeb.com
Highlights: Visitors, visit, Pennsylvania Dutch, visitors, Intercourse, Pennsylvania, Lancaster
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